The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believerThe Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer

1. Such as die daily: We are not borne Angels, die we must; Therefore we had need carry always a deaths-head about us. The Basilisk if it see a man first, it kills him; but if he see it first, it doth him no hurt: The Basilisk death, if it sees us first, before we see it, 'tis dangerous: but if we see it first by ⟨p. 79⟩meditating upon it, it doth us no hurt: study death, often walk among the Tombs. It is the thoughts of death before-hand, that must do us good. In a dark night, one Torch carried before a man, is worth many Torches carried after him: one serious thought of death before-hand, one tear shed for sin before death, is worth a thousand shed after, when it is too late. 'Tis good to make Death our familiar, and in this sense to be in Deaths oft: ^*that if God should presently seal a lease of ejectment, if he should send us a Letter of Summons this night to surrender, we might have nothing to do but to die.

1. Such as die daily: We are not borne Angels, die we must; Therefore we had need carry alwayes a deaths-head about us. The Basilisk if it see a man first, it kills him; but if he see it first, it doth him no hurt: The Basilisk death, if it sees us first, before we see it, 'tis dangerous: but if we see it first by ⟨p. 79⟩meditating upon it, it doth us no hurt: study death, often walke among the Tombs. It is the thoughts of death before-hand, that must do us good. In a dark night, one Torch carried before a man, is worth many Torches carried after him: one serious thought of death before-hand, one teare shed for sinne before death, is worth a thousand shed after, when it is too late. 'Tis good to make Death our familiar, and in this sense to be in Deaths oft: ^*that if God should presently seal a lease of ejectment, if he should send us a Letter of Summons this night to surrender, we might have nothing to do but to die.

1. *2 Cor. 11.23